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  • Greg Johnson avatar

    Release It All!

    Contributed by Greg Johnson on Jan 29, 2008
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     | 6,842 views

    When you release all of your difficulty to God through prayer, God shakes your house and you become bold for Jesus Christ.

    This message is an edited version of a sermon given at Loving God Fellowship. Copyright © 2008 Loving God Fellowship, Inc. http://www.LovingGodFellowship.org . You are encouraged to share this message with those you know that are hungry for God’s Word. Release it All! By Rev. Greg Johnson Acts ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    One Whom You Do Not Know

    Contributed by Gaither Bailey on Dec 8, 2011
     | 3,420 views

    Third Sunday in Advent, year B.

    John 1: 6 – 8; 19 – 28 / One Whom You Do Not Know Intro: I once conducted a training session in Indiana where I told the audience that I was from Fayette City, a town of less than a thousand people in PA that no one knew. A lady raised her hand and said, “I know that place. I ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

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    Hearing His Voice! Series

    Contributed by Bala Samson on Apr 11, 2013
     | 4,742 views

    If your heart desires to follow God and you are seeking His will, you can’t go wrong. He gives wisdom and direction abundantly.

    Hearing His Voice! Genesis 22:2- Then the Lord said, "Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you." I’m truly excited to write on this topic: Hearing His ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    Desiring The Attention Of Heaven

    Contributed by Rodney Kelley on Sep 10, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,736 views

    We have access to God through prayer

    Prayer is our invitation to join God at His throne! 1. God Commands pray - Col 4:2 2. God is glorified by pray • It acknowledges His Omniscience - Ps 139:2 • It acknowledges His Omnipotence - Job 42:2 • It acknowledges His Sovereignty - 1Jo 5:14 • It acknowledges His Mercy - ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Being A Pest Series

    Contributed by Kevin Ruffcorn on Nov 18, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,350 views

    The tenacious widow serves as a lesson about prayer for us. God doesn't mind if we are prayerful pests. He'd much rather have us pray for any reason or any occasion than have us remain silent.

    Luke 18:1-8 “Being a Pest” INTRODUCTION Prayer is one of the core spiritual disciplines of the Christian life. Billions of Christians have prayed throughout the millennia (along with those of other faith traditions). Thousands of books have been written on the subject of prayer, ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

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    Being Christ's Witnesses Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on May 15, 2010
     | 4,329 views

    Christ calls all of us to witness to the love of God and the presence of a Savior

    Monday After Ascension “You Will Be My Witnesses” 17 May 2010 Jesus came to reverse the curse of Babel. In the Mesopotamian plain, human beings played gods in their arrogance, and God scattered them over the earth, multiplying their languages. In the upper room, and at Pentecost, the ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

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    How Long Shall Your Evil Thoughts Lodge Within You?

    Contributed by Spencer Cunnah on Jun 15, 2010
    based on 10 ratings
     | 9,445 views

    A challenging sermon to apply the Lordship of Christ to your thoughts.

    How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you? Introduction The Bible has a lot to say to us about our thinking. How true it is that what you are is determined by the way you think. The Son of God tells us that it’s out of the heart that evil thoughts proceed. We are also told in the New ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

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    Building Castles In The Sand

    Contributed by Stacey W. Strickland on Jan 17, 2011
    based on 4 ratings
     | 10,283 views

    So many people now a days are storing treasures upon this earth. They are gathering things of the earth that will not have any meaning in the world to come. They are building their lives upon the sand or the things of this world when they should be build

    BUILDING CASTLES IN THE SAND Matt. 7:24-27 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was ...read more

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    Denomination: Church Of God

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    The Cherubim Around The Ark Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Feb 26, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,641 views

    Depictions of events from the Bible in image are in no way a violation of the first commandment, but help the events transcend the passing of time and become present in our midst.

    Monday of 8th Week in Course Feb 28 2011 Spirit of the Liturgy The young man arrived full of enthusiasm, and he went away sorrowful. The English can’t do proper justice to the original meaning of the Greek. The same word is used of the disciples when Jesus told them he would ultimately be ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

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    Lessons For The Materializing Church -- Part 5 Series

    Contributed by Guy Glass on Feb 15, 2010
     | 2,682 views

    Up to this point in the text James has been sharing issues regarding how we are to respond to trials and temptations. With trials, we are to embrace them as being from God and for our benefit. With temptations, they are the opposite, not from God and da

    DETAILING OUR LIVES FOR JESUS JAMES 1:21-27 INTRODUCTION: Up to this point in the text James has been sharing issues regarding how we are to respond to trials and temptations. With trials, we are to embrace them as being from God and for our benefit. With temptations, they are the opposite, not ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Prison To Praise: Praise Changes Everything Series

    Contributed by Charles Wallis on Mar 26, 2009
    based on 10 ratings
     | 19,925 views

    Paul and Silas were put in prison, and set free by praise.

    Prison to Praise: Worship brings freedom and salvation Paul and Silas are freed from prison through praise Explanation: Text: 16:16-30 1. Paul and Silas get in trouble because of slave girl (money) 2. They are beaten and put in stocks (not fun!) 3. How do the respond? They sing! Praise and ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    Watch This!

    Contributed by Samson Musyoki on Sep 26, 2007
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     | 5,026 views

    WHEN CONGREGATIONS SPLIT UP, WHERE DO WE PLACE THE BLAME?

    WATCH THIS! 2 SAMUEL 20:11-13 One of Joab’s men stood beside Amasa and said, “whoever favors Joab, and whoever is for David, let him follow Joab!” Amasa lay wallowing in his blood in the middle of the road, and the man saw that all the troops came to a halt there. When he realized that everyone ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    Passionate People

    Contributed by Gaither Bailey on Oct 25, 2008
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     | 3,429 views

    As followers of Christ we must become passionate about loving God and others.

    Matthew 22:34 – 46 / The Great commandment Intro: Doris and Buddy lived on a farm in rural Missouri. They had 8 kids in a little 3 bedroom house. Doris told me that when she was in the hospital having their 8th child her roommate asked her if they were catholic. Doris responded, “No. We’re ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

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    Darkness And Light

    Contributed by Christopher Holdsworth on Dec 28, 2013
    based on 6 ratings
     | 7,242 views

    We must be careful whose image we reflect in our lives.

    DARKNESS AND LIGHT. 2 Corinthians 4:3-6. The Apostle Paul likens the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ to a perfume, which to some people - “the saved” (2 Corinthians 2:15-16) - is a source of sweetness, light and life. To others - “the lost” (2 Corinthians 4:3) - it is the poignant poisonous ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Raised With Christ For A Purpose Series

    Contributed by Ken Henson on Sep 28, 2016
    based on 2 ratings
     | 5,228 views

    we are resurrected with Jesus for His purposes

    English 2:6 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 7 in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. 8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through ...read more

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